3 papers
cs.CL2026
Bootstrapping Conversational Recommendation Agents At Spotify: Synthetic Data Generation and Self-Improvement Loops
Enrico Palumbo, Alexandre Tamborrino, Victor Ode +15
Conversational recommendation agents are a new paradigm for content discovery, enabling users to express complex intents through natural language (e.g., "recommend Italian indie ar…
cs.IR2026
A Unified Language Model for Large Scale Search, Recommendation, and Reasoning
Marco De Nadai, Edoardo D'Amico, Max Lefarov +18
LLMs are increasingly applied to recommendation, retrieval, and reasoning, yet deploying a single end-to-end model that can jointly support these behaviors over large, heterogeneou…
cs.IR2025
Semantic IDs for Joint Generative Search and Recommendation
Gustavo Penha, Edoardo D'Amico, Marco De Nadai +8
Generative models powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are emerging as a unified solution for powering both recommendation and search tasks. A key design choice in these models…